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County staff propose updated purchasing policy; commissioners debate purchase-order threshold
Summary
Staff recommended a new purchasing policy and raising the purchase-order threshold to reduce small purchase workload; commissioners debated thresholds ranging from the current $500 to $1,000 or $2,500.
County staff presented a proposed purchasing policy that would update procurement procedures to comply with state and federal law and recommended raising the department-level purchase-order threshold from $500 to $2,500 to cut administrative workload.
A staff member said the analysis in the meeting packet shows many small transactions: if the current $500 threshold stayed in place,…
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